Class quad baling charge

[Surgery]

What folk paying for quads 8ft 6 string , just had the bill from next door and thought £5 is too much , thanks

 

[sodbuster]

What folk paying for quads 8ft 6 string , just had the bill from next door and thought £5 is too much , thanks

That's 8x4x3 price surely?

 

[Mc115reed]

That a 4x2 or 4x3?

 

[Mc115reed]

That a 4x2 or 4x3?

 

[Wilberforce]

£4.60 for a 8*4*3 here. Bales average 400kg. Has been a 25p/bale increase for the last two years. Don't mind paying a bit extra as the guy has a fleet of balers next door and hasn't like us down.

 

[kiwi pom]

What folk paying for quads 8ft 6 string , just had the bill from next door and thought £5 is too much , thanks

Just had the bill in December for work done at harvest?
Why would you get someone in without asking the price first?

 

[Cropper]

£4.60 for a 8*4*3 here. Bales average 400kg. Has been a 25p/bale increase for the last two years. Don't mind paying a bit extra as the guy has a fleet of balers next door and hasn't like us down.

I’m paying £5.60 for 8*4*3 here, I think I’d better haggle a bit next year!

 

[tr250]

£4.60 for a 8*4*3 here. Bales average 400kg. Has been a 25p/bale increase for the last two years. Don't mind paying a bit extra as the guy has a fleet of balers next door and hasn't like us down.

Would say this is about right for 120x90 we charge £3.60 for 120x70 and that works out the same per ton but 120x70 uses more string per ton

 

[tr250]

Just had the bill in December for work done at harvest?
Why would you get someone in without asking the price first?

We don’t have many people ask the price first. I’d like to think they know we are reasonable but I suspect it’s more they don’t care if it’s going to be wet tomorrow

 

[Grass And Grain]

Personally I think it needs to be at least £5 for a 8×4×3 , otherwise baler stays in the shed.

 

[Hesston4860s]

120x90 XD bales are running at about £6 a bale over here 120x70 at £4 - 4.50, so about 1.2 pence a kilo and needs to go up really.

 

[Surgery]

That a 4x2 or 4x3?

Sorry , 4*2.

 

[Surgery]

That's 8x4x3 price surely?

He’s been bailing our straw for 25 years , we paid him £4-50 last year which was ok.

 

[neilo]

Just had the bill in December for work done at harvest?
Why would you get someone in without asking the price first?

I don’t ask what my regular baling contractors will charge, I trust them not to take the pee and be somewhere ‘about right’. If not, we would be looking elsewhere, but we all tend to work on the theory that the job’s got to be fair for everyone.
I’d certainly get a ballpark figure from anyone new though, if I was needing to look elsewhere for any reason.

One of them never sorts his invoices until the following March too, usually after i’ve Pushed him, which is obviously worth a bit too. Plenty of contractors locally don’t sort their invoices out until the work steadies down and they have time to catch up, and when they know the sub has arrived of course. Seems fair enough as long as everyone plays fair, which most do.

 

[d williams]

What folk paying for quads 8ft 6 string , just had the bill from next door and thought £5 is too much , thanks

thats what I charge
How many they doing for you?
If bales dry and right it’s cheep compared to the man a £4/ bale who don’t turn up when you want it done

 

[kiwi pom]

I don’t ask what my regular baling contractors will charge, I trust them not to take the pee and be somewhere ‘about right’. If not, we would be looking elsewhere, but we all tend to work on the theory that the job’s got to be fair for everyone.
I’d certainly get a ballpark figure from anyone new though, if I was needing to look elsewhere for any reason.

One of them never sorts his invoices until the following March too, usually after i’ve Pushed him, which is obviously worth a bit too. Plenty of contractors locally don’t sort their invoices out until the work steadies down and they have time to catch up, and when they know the sub has arrived of course. Seems fair enough as long as everyone plays fair, which most do.

Fair enough. There just seem to be a lot of threads on here that are similar and i always wonder, do people actually communicate with each other any more?
Must be a lot of money in the job if people can wait that long to get paid.

 

[essexpete]

Nobody seems to mention the area or the tonnage? Surely it is difficult to blanket price or do the contractors bury the less profitable more difficult jobs under the best?

 

[kiwi pom]

Nobody seems to mention the area or the tonnage? Surely it is difficult to blanket price or do the contractors bury the less profitable more difficult jobs under the best?

Good point it seems the contractor has put their price up 50p which apparently is too much but did they bale 100 or 10,000?
Did they have a new baler that gets a heavier bale etc.

 

[Surgery]

500 bales , it’s a ten year old baler

 

[Surgery]

Fair enough. There just seem to be a lot of threads on here that are similar and i always wonder, do people actually communicate with each other any more?
Must be a lot of money in the job if people can wait that long to get paid.

The guys a neighbouring farmer who’s has done such work for 20 years plus , i would expect a conversation pria to baling that the price has gone up from someone who came to our wedding! I did have someone with an xd 120-90 come in to do some more , he charged £5-50 a bale hence why I asked the question , how much were folk paying for a smaller less dense class bale.